Graduate Student / Postdoc Seminar

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Applying biology to mathematics, and mathematics to biology

Speaker: Ofer Kimchi, Courant Institute, New York University

Location: Warren Weaver Hall 1302

Date: Friday, September 19, 2025, 1 p.m.

Synopsis:

I will discuss my group's efforts to bridge the gap between what biology can achieve and what we understand well enough to design ourselves. I will first give an overview of the different scales of biological questions we explore. I will then focus on RNA molecules, whose behaviors, ranging over four orders of magnitude in length (from the Angstrom scale to micrometers) contain many open questions. I will describe both some of our past work in this space as well as our current interests. Overall, I will aim to emphasize areas in which biology can spur advances in mathematics, as well as areas in which there are opportunities for mathematicians to perform calculations that can have genuine impact.